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Marine Bio ALUMNI
18 members Latest Activity: Sep. 22, 2008 This group is for all students who have completed the Marine Biology course, and have endured at least one of our Andros Island field studies.
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15 members Latest Activity: May 20 This group is reserved for current students of Marine Biology. These students are enrolled in Honors Marine Biology within the SJSD as well as a coll…
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19 members Latest Activity: Oct 2 This group is reserved for current students of Marine Biology. These students are enrolled in Honors Marine Biology within the Saint Joseph School Dis…
WATER...
warm
tropical
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flowing
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so slowly
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tropical
water
flowing
ever
so slowly
...northward
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During our last class I definitely had several aha moments! Way back in third grade we learned about the layers of the Earth: the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. What I never even thought about was whether or not the ocean had levels as...
(video of a marine biology graduate!)
Hahahhahaha oh my gosh! That is too funny, we have a teacher at LHS named Mr. Neff, so thats why I messed up. I do know the name of the teacher of our class. :)
Ok so I'm not that great at reflecting on things but here goes anyways.
Monday night I got to class just in time to start the lesson on Oceanic Zones. As everybody so far has said I had no clue about the different levels, not only are there level...
"One thing that confused me on Monday is when Mr. Neff told us that the inverted trophic pyramid isn't real. Can anyone help clear this up because I thought that it was." Totally forgot! I remember him saying (his name is Mr. NASH by the way, ha) ...
Oh that would make since! See I must not have heard or remembered how long tides are. 12 hours wouldn't create much of a problem for the creatures in the tide pools then. Thanks for resolving my issue
Hey Kody! :)
I also didn't know that the ocean was broken into specific categories before class on Monday. I am pretty sure that the creatures probably get a new batch of water every 12 hours at high tide, so they shouldn't die in that amount of t...
Hey Carsen!
I liked your response a lot, I wan't sure what we were really susspose to respond to until I read what you guys had put so thanks! :) Also I had forgot about the fact that 90% of all living species live in the photic zone. So thanks fo...
I'm not going to beat a dead horse and talk about the same things that Carsen and Kody talked about, but they both brought up very interesting points that we learned on Monday.
I like that Mr. Nash showed us some pictures and talked to us about th...
To start off, I had no clue there was "Oceanic Zones." I only thought there was deep and shallow parts of the ocean, not broken down into specific categories. The Pelagic zones are the zones classified horizontally, and the Benthic zones are class...
I have the same questions! "They do have to develope one right, they aren't just born like that right?" I believe that they are not born with that capability. I thought that they somehow adapt like the cactus story we learned in class 11-9, correc...
Honestly, before last Monday's class, I had no clue about the levels of the ocean other that what we had breifly talked about in class. Some things that I learned was the fact that 90% of the living species in the ocean live in the "Photic Zone." ...
I take my comment about the baby smooth lumpsucker being the most awesome thing ever. This is the coolest thing ever by far.
This has got to be the coolest thing ever.
Use the space below to reflect on our latest class discussion on oceanic zones (both benthic & pelagic) and the apparent "inverted trophic pyramid" found in coral reef ecosystems.
The slide set we used to facilitate our chat can be viewed here:
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I'm not sure actually. Fairly young, probably a 2-3?
These are amazing, Stephanie! As always thanks so much for popping back in to add these for us. I really appreciate it greatly.
WOW. have any idea how old this one is?
wow... that's a cute little guy at that stage, huh?
YUM. how cool...
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A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer against potentially damaging temperatures brought about by direct sunlight at low tide.Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society and BirdLife International have released the first-ever atlas of the Patagonian Sea -- a globally important but poorly understood South American marine ecosystem.© 2009 Created by Sean Nash
